A GRIEVING mum whose pilot daughter died in a plane crash a year ago has told how she still sends messages to her on Facebook.

Trainee flyer Jaskinder Samra, 21, from Wolverhampton, was in a light aircraft which ran out of fuel on a training flight in Tennessee, USA.

Instructor Abraham George, 24, was also killed, while passenger Shaun Thacker, 21, had a miracle escape after wrapping himself in a duvet.

The one-year anniversary of the tragedy is this Saturday, and Jaskinder’s heartbroken mum Mindie, 44, has revealed she is still struggling with her loss.

“Every day is so hard,” she told the Sunday Mercury.

“The only thing that keeps me going is her Facebook page. It’s still open, so I go on there and write comments, and I think she reads them. I just write as if I am talking to her.

“Some people may say I’m not letting go but, day by day, this is getting me through it.”

Jaskinder died when the Cessna Skyhawk she was in plummeted to earth in a field near Chattanooga, Tennessee.

She had been on a 1,000-mile training flight from Orlando, Florida, to Chicago, Illinois.

But it was not until the following day that her loving family, including dad Baljit, 48, and brother Ranjit, 24, received a bombshell telephone call.

“At the moment, the pain is still so raw that we almost don’t even think it’s 2011 as we don’t know where 2010 went,” said Mindie.

“It doesn’t feel like it’s been a year since it happened. It is like the world stopped for us.’’

Former air hostess Jaskinder moved to America to follow her dreams of one day being an international airline pilot.

In June, her family made an emotional trip to see where she spent her last weeks and travelled to the crash site. There they met Junior and Barbie Cochran, who rushed to the stricken plane to try to save the victims.

Mindie said: “We followed in Jaskinder’s footsteps and went back to her flying school. My son discovered her classmates had laid a rose on her desk for quite a while afterwards.

“Then we found her flat and went into it. It was empty but it was good to be in there.

“After that, we went to the place where the accident happened. My son laid four roses there, because her favourite number was number four.

“And we also laid an eagle symbol. She had a thing about eagles, because of wings and flying. That was really emotional.

“We also met the family who tried to help her.

“They gave us a piece of the wing of the plane and my son took some soil from the ground.”

On Saturday, Mindie and her family are holding an event to mark the sad anniversary.

She explained: “I’m going to be holding a prayer session between 5pm and 7pm at the Cannock Road Sikh Temple.

“It’s open to everyone and people can say a prayer for her in Punjabi.

“There will be food and drink available all day.

“It is a chance of meeting all her friends and to reminisce with our memories.